Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volumen61867 |
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... sits down . ) You are welcome home . Jul . ( Crosses , R. ) Home ! retired spot Would be a palace for an owl ! Duke . ' Tis ours.- You are merry ; this Jul . Ay , for the time we stay in it . Duke . By Heaven , this is the noble mansion ...
... sits down . ) You are welcome home . Jul . ( Crosses , R. ) Home ! retired spot Would be a palace for an owl ! Duke . ' Tis ours.- You are merry ; this Jul . Ay , for the time we stay in it . Duke . By Heaven , this is the noble mansion ...
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... sitting on your window seat Beneath a cloudless moon : You hear a sound , that seems to wear The semblance of a tune ... sit in speechless agony , Until your ear is The Music Grinders . 23.
... sitting on your window seat Beneath a cloudless moon : You hear a sound , that seems to wear The semblance of a tune ... sit in speechless agony , Until your ear is The Music Grinders . 23.
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Penny readings Joseph Edwards Carpenter. You sit in speechless agony , Until your ear is numb . Poor " Home , sweet home , " should seem to be A very dismal place : Your " auld acquaintance , " all at once , Is altered in the face ...
Penny readings Joseph Edwards Carpenter. You sit in speechless agony , Until your ear is numb . Poor " Home , sweet home , " should seem to be A very dismal place : Your " auld acquaintance , " all at once , Is altered in the face ...
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... sitting in a tavern , when a horrible . noise arose in the house , and Monsieur Top - it - droit , a French dancing - master , not much higher than a venerable savoy cabbage , rushed into the coffee - room , foaming like ginger - beer ...
... sitting in a tavern , when a horrible . noise arose in the house , and Monsieur Top - it - droit , a French dancing - master , not much higher than a venerable savoy cabbage , rushed into the coffee - room , foaming like ginger - beer ...
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... sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done , throw a crust to the poor ; Not only the pleasure itself of good living , But also the pleasure of now and then giving : So pleasant it is to have money , heigh - ho ! So ...
... sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done , throw a crust to the poor ; Not only the pleasure itself of good living , But also the pleasure of now and then giving : So pleasant it is to have money , heigh - ho ! So ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adams answered appeared arms better blood born Brown called carried child church close cried dark death deep Duke eyes face fair fall father fear feel fire follow give given hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hope horse hour Italy lady land leave light live look Lord Messrs morning mother nature never night o'er once passed Penny pleasant poor present prove published Readings rose round seemed shillings side song soon soul sound stand stood success sure sweet tears tell thee things thou thought took town Trulliber turned Tyke voice walked wife wind young
Pasajes populares
Página 134 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Página 137 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble...
Página 159 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Página 133 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 190 - Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so; For I can weather the roughest gale That ever wind did blow.
Página 135 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 138 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Página 173 - Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms; And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead ; All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the Heaven's brink.
Página 41 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground I Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Página 77 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I...